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Pretty in Pink soundtrack in iTunes: OMD, Suzanne Vega, Psychedelic Furs, New Order, Echo & Bunnymen, The Smiths Cover of sketchbook 29: a painted collaged face on black — cropped bands of eyes, nose and grinning teeth assembled into a mask Sketchbook 46 spread: pencil study of wind-shaped trees in the Sint-Pietersabdij garden in Ghent, with a black frigatebird with scarlet throat painted on the facing page Narrow interface background strip: a rounded black bar fading downward into white Filmstrip of four grainy webcam frames in sickly greens and reds: a woman at a piano, in a fur collar, resting on an arm, beside flowers Salvador Dalí's 'Ten rules for him who wishes to be a painter', from rule 1 on making gold come out of your brush to rule 10: 'If painting doesn't love you, all your love for her will be unavailing' Blender simulation of a striped exhibition table: a grey torso on a ziggurat plinth, blue and orange cyclops heads, an orange-gloved fragment, and scattered skulls Three glitched 3d renders: exploded polygon spikes in yellows, a rainbow-triangulated leg embedded in grey mesh, dark red faceted caverns Sketchbook 48 Paris spread: Sainte-Chapelle Christmas concert — a sculpted angel spreading wings, a soprano mid-note, sprawled legs of listeners, and the music list: Mozart, Purcell, Pergolesi Long strip of overlapping webcam frames: a woman with braids, bare shouldered and eyes lowered, repeating and dissolving along a dark band Sketchbook 48 spread: two graphite studies — a close-up of a hand gripping drapery at a nude's hip, and a rising écorché-like figure with arms flung upward, 'in the presence of others on the last day of class' Hand-tinted Meiji-era photograph of two women and an older man gathered around a game of Go on a low board, tea things beside them Sketchbook 42, page 11: ballpoint still life on tan paper — a two-liter Sprite bottle, glass mugs, eyeglasses, a crumpled wrapper, and a TV remote Booklet page for The Books' It Never Changes to Stop: the sampled schoolteacher's monologue — 'Sit up straight and be quiet... absolutely still, every eye closed' — set as a poem Rogier van der Weyden's Beaune Last Judgment, centre panel: the archangel Michael in white weighs two small souls while red angels sound trumpets Sketchbook 49 spread in wine-red pencil: sleeping subway riders, a heavy downcast face, and two men leaning close over something in their hands Protective styles: hands parting and braiding a seated girl's hair, her eyes patient and downcast, a mug and dark shelf behind Colossal marble head of Medusa asleep on a rock, her face tipped back, wrapped in a mane of thick coiling snakes Cover of sketchbook 17: cream paper with a small dark varnished window of foliage over faint cursive script, red velvet spine at left Sketchbook 43 spread: peonies in a ribbed vase in silvery graphite at left; loose pink colored-pencil peonies at right with notes on Keats, Rousseau, and looking deeper Logo of the word mirror drawn in thin white rounded strokes on black, the letterforms mirrored so the word reads the same reflected Background tile of thin gold threads wandering and crossing over a white field Kiki Smith's bronze fountain figure: a standing nude woman on a pedestal, water trickling from her open hands, photographed against violet light Wenzel Peter's Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: the first couple beneath the tree among lions, camels, horses, swans, and hundreds of birds Cover of sketchbook 21A, 'The Disease Manifesto': white moon and streaked clouds on black-blue night, a pasted caption reading 'Night; stars and a bright moon.' Two blurry black-and-white film frames with sprocket holes: a young woman in a t-shirt gesturing, then smiling shyly Bruce Nauman's 1967 neon spiral: 'The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths' in blue script wound inside a red-pink coil on a dark wall The Darwin fish emblem: the Christian ichthys grown stubby legs, with DARWIN lettered inside its body and a small fish in its toothed mouth Sketchbook 46: graphite study on orange paper of a marble male torso from behind, headless and armless on its museum mount Small jade plant with plump oval leaves in a terracotta pot with saucer, on a red tiled windowsill by an open window Astrodienst natal chart for Michaël: Cancer sun, Virgo ascendant, blue and green aspect lines crossing the pale wheel Desktop with 3d girl half-wireframed beside a photo of a blindfolded woman, and a hooded red-cloaked model in a second window; a filename rants across the top Auriea's Year Zero at bitforms, New York: a stepped white ziggurat of sculptures — horned bust, small heads, a crowned figure on a column — beside a glowing blue mandala projection Sketchbook 47 spread at the Musée de Flandre, Cassel: notes on Flemish Mannerism and 'The Flood' by Matthijs Cock, sketches of a jester and the Struganoff Madonna's snake-like sleeve Sketchbook drawing of heaven and hell: a bowed figure in black on brown earth, flames at their feet, while a distant figure exults under a cross and red sun Dancing drawing: a dense tangle of black ink figures looping across grey-washed paper, thin drips running off the bottom of the swarm Star Trek Voyager cast photo: Janeway front and center with arms crossed, the crew in red and gold uniforms around her Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra day 2 'Gaming Environments': pages crowded with ballpoint portraits — Michael Mateas, Chris Crawford haloed mid-speech, notes on Deikto and immersion Sketchbook 51 spread in sepia ink at 'Rubens privé', Antwerp: thumbnail copies of Rubens self-portraits, Isabella and Helena, with notes — 'Rubens cannot make me cry like Rembrandt, but he can make me feel love' Sketchbook 47 Naples spread: pencil studies after Caravaggio's 'Seven Acts of Mercy', two anguished theater masks, and a winged sphinx — 'Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo' The Fountain of Life detail from the Ghent Altarpiece — angels kneeling on starry grass around the slender bronze fountain — framed with a plaque reading 'Auriea 2012', a gift from Hasan Niyazi Tiny snapshot of Quinton at graduation, smiling in black cap and gown and holding a diploma Two ancient Egyptian black stone heads with damaged noses, side by side on museum stands — one with wig, one curly-haired Mina Loy's Love Songs in manuscript, 1915: the poem beginning Spawn of Fantasies in a looping hand, signed and dated Grid of grainy black-and-white webcam self-portraits: Auriea in a tank top posing and blurring, a raised palm with VSOP written on it, and close-ups of one eye Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather: two self-portrait busts side by side, one licked-down chocolate, one washed-away white soap, on classical pedestals Vija Celmins drawing of a spider web: concentric silk rings and radial spokes in white on black Sketchbook 49 spread: studies after Rembrandt's Man with the Golden Helmet at the Gemäldegalerie, and Géricault at Ghent's MSK — severed-head studies, phrenology marbles, and the 'head of a monomaniac' Roma sketchbook: quick ink sketches of sculpture groups — figures wrestling above a skeleton, and a robed statue on a plinth Sketchbook 40 spread on the game that became Bientôt l'été: door-and-level diagrams, color theory notes on hue value chroma, and the Room 101 passage from Orwell copied out

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